Djalel Benbouzid

Djalel Benbouzid

AI Senior Manager and Trustworthy AI Expert Volkswagen Group

Conference Day 1, Thursday, 4 December 2025

10:50 AM Keynote Panel: Europe’s Edge in GenAI - Building Scalable, Sustainable, and Sovereign AI Systems

• How leading organizations are operationalizing GenAI with secure, modular, and agentic

architectures

• What it takes to align AI innovation with EU regulatory frameworks like the AI Act

• How data ownership, open ecosystems, and SLMs offer a more resilient path than

centralized U.S.-style scale

• What organizational structures and cultural shifts are required to make AI safe, useful, and

enterprise-ready



2:40 PM Compliance by Design: GenAI Governance and the EU AI Act

• Explains how companies can turn the AI Act into practical rules, responsibilities, and risk

checks for real-world AI systems.

• Shows how legal categories and risk levels from the regulation become actual tools,

access rules, and workflows inside organizations.

• Highlights why training, culture, and two-way communication are key to getting

thousands of people to follow responsible AI practices at scale.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Djalel.

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